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Fotografie + English: Austria-00893 - Pallas Athene Fountain (Taken on June 17, 2015, Sony NEX-7)

• Pallas Athene Fountain in front of Parliament.
• The Austrian Parliament building was constructed between 1874 and 1884 as the seat of the Reichsrat, the Imperial Parliament representing the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Inside are two large assembly halls which originally housed the two chambers of the Imperial Parliament: the Herrenhaus (upper house) and the Abgeordnetenhaus (lower house).
• Today the building houses sessions of the Nationalrat (National Council) and the Bundesrat (Federal Council).
• The building is one of the most important splended buildings at the Wiener Ringstraße. Built from 1874 to 1883 in the Greek-Roman style the rooms are used as residence for the Austrian National and Federal council.
• This building in Vienna is 151 m long, 132 m wide, the construction costs (at that time gulden) would be today approx. 200 million Euro, the biggest of the 1.600 rooms -the pillars hall- sizes approx. 1000 m², an inspection walkway through all the rooms would mean to walk approx. 13 km.
• Hofburg, Wien, Wien
• Author: Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada

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